Stop guessing what sells
The latest search demand for 70,000+ t-shirt subjects. You start from the answer, not a blank page.
No prompts. Point and click.
Pick the subject and the style and Merchu draws it, print-ready and background removed. No prompt to write, no blank page.
Or photograph something you like, and Merchu works from that instead.1 click to Etsy and eBay
Title, tags, description and every mockup photo, written and built for you. Colours, sizes and delivery profiles set for both.
Clothing · T-shirtsCapybara Mode On Unisex T-Shirt, Cosy Animal Tee£18.95Free UK delivery · Dispatched in 1 to 2 daysAdd to basketAlso live on eBayOur press, or yours.
We print the transfer in our UK factory the same day, at £5.99 a metre plus delivery. Or take the design to your own press. You press and post either way.
Four steps. One tool.
You’d normally need a trends tool, a design tool, a lister and a printer. Merchu is all four.
100 free tokens a month. No card.
Already have artwork? Upload and list itJust need transfers printed?
DTF transfers, £5.99 a metre
Printed in Sheffield the day you order, ready to press at home.
Start price, ex VAT. Down to £2.99 for Studio members on annual billing.
- Free£5.99
- Starter£4.99
- ProPays for itself at 11 m a month£3.99
- Studio£2.99
Annual billing. Monthly is £5.49 / £4.99 / £3.99 a metre.
No account needed to price a sheet.
Billed to the centimetre, not the sheet
Most printers charge for the whole sheet. We measure to the bottom edge of your artwork and bill that length only. Fill 62 cm of a 100 cm sheet and you pay for 62 cm, and auto-arrange packs your designs to keep the sheet short.
Everything you need to list, in one go
Not just art. The full marketplace-ready bundle every listing needs, generated together from a single brief.
PNGTransparent PNG
Background-free art, ready to drop straight onto any garment colour.
CMYK TIFF
Colour-accurate print files your DTF printer will reproduce faithfully.
And the bundle doesn't stop at files. Merchu writes the listing and puts it live on the marketplace for you.
Live eBay listing in one click
Connect your eBay shop and Merchu publishes the whole listing for you: photos, title, tags and every size and colour variant, priced and live. No spreadsheets, no copy-paste.
Etsy, filled and published
The Merchu browser extension drops your title, tags, photos and description straight into Etsy and publishes, or copy and paste it yourself in a click.
eBay & Etsy today · Shopify publishing coming soon
“I used to lose an evening to one listing: design it, cut the file, write the copy, upload every size. Now the eBay listing goes up while I'm still on my first coffee.”
“The trend list is the bit I didn't know I needed. I stopped designing what I liked and started designing what the numbers said, and my first month of that outsold my whole spring.”
And it's all print-ready
Every design also lands as a transparent PNG and a CMYK print file, ready to drop onto any garment colour. Across the animals, trades, holidays and micro-niches DTF buyers search for.
T-shirt design ideas, ranked by what's selling
Most sellers guess. Merchu measures. Its trend engine tracks real search demand for over 70,000 t-shirt subjects, cross-checks its calls against real Etsy bestseller sales, and rebuilds the rankings every week. You design what people are already buying.
- Real search demand, not vibesSearch volumes with 12 months of history for every subject. The same numbers advertisers pay for.
- Cross-checked against real salesEtsy bestseller lists corroborate the search data before a trend ships, so a call points at real buyers, not just clicks.
- A radar for the season aheadThe seasonal lens shows what peaks in the next 1 to 4 months, so you're listed while demand is still climbing.
- Vetted before you see itDuplicates merged, one-off fads culled, trademark risks gated out. Every week, automatically.
Then the part no standalone trend tool can do: click the trend, and Merchu designs it, builds the print files and puts the listing live. Same tab, same minute.
Example rows. In the app: live demand, 12-month graphs, rankings rebuilt weekly.
Because none of them finish the job
AI generators give you an image. Mockup tools give you a shirt photo. Stock libraries give you someone else's art. Most DTF sellers end up paying for three of them plus a separate printer: four logins, around £50 a month, and still no print-ready file at the end.
- AI image generatorRGB images only, no transparency, no CMYK print file~£24/mo
- Mockup toolA shirt photo, and nothing else~£12/mo
- Trend research toolTells you the niche, but you still design it from scratch~£16/mo
- A separate DTF printerExport, re-upload, and hope the colours match+ setup
- Trend research built in, wired straight into the designer
- One brief → transparent PNG + CMYK TIFF, together
- Photoreal mockups + AI listing copy in the same bundle
- Order DTF transfers in-app, printed in the UK
- No prompt engineering, no file conversion, no second printer
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Built by a working UK print shop
Merchu isn't a startup guessing at print specs. It's print on demand for Etsy and eBay sellers, built on 1ClickPrint, a DTF operation in Sheffield that prints transfers every day. The CMYK files Merchu makes are the same files our own machines run.
Read the 4,973 reviews on Trustpilot →Printed in the UK
Order transfers inside Merchu, fulfilled in-house by 1ClickPrint in Sheffield. No middleman, no overseas wait.
Files that actually print
CMYK TIFF at 300 dpi, built for the same RIP our own machines run every day. The colour you approve is the colour that prints.
You own every design
Full commercial rights to sell on Etsy, eBay and Shopify. We don't take a cut of what you make.
“Lovely soft transfers, noticeably nicer than the other DTF suppliers I'd tried.”
“Sent the artwork one morning and had the finished transfer sheet the next afternoon. Unreal turnaround.”
“My go-to for anything DTF. Fast, helpful, and the print quality is always spot on.”
The margin on one tee
Your transfer cost is the real rate for the plan you pick. The rest is yours to set, so change the numbers to match how you sell.
Illustrative, not a promise. Fees are Etsy's published UK rates and change; blank prices vary by garment and supplier. Print cost assumes a 28cm by 35cm front print, 2 across a 56cm sheet, and ignores the sheet left over each metre. At this margin, 1 sale a month covers the Starter plan.
Start free. Scale when it sells.
The free plan is a real plan: 100 tokens every month, every feature included, full-quality PNG and CMYK exports, no card. Paid plans buy more tokens and a lower print rate, nothing else is held back.
Free
Try it out
ex VAT, added at checkout
- 100 tokens / month
- Every feature included
- Full-quality PNG & CMYK exports
- Trends explorer: demand & graphs
- DTF transfer printing £5.99/metre
Starter
For growing sellers
Billed £120.00/year · save 17%
ex VAT, added at checkout
- 500 tokens / month
- Everything in Free
- Trends explorer: niches revealed
- Token top-ups when you need more
- DTF transfer printing £4.99/metre
If you can spot it. You can use it.
You don't need design vocabulary or drawing skills. Photograph anything with the look you're after and Merchu names the art style, subject, composition and palette, ready to brief your own original design.
- Subject
- Layered mountain range with a setting sun
- Art style
- 70s national-park screen print, halftone shading, retro outdoor aesthetic
- Composition
- Centred chest illustration
- Palette
- creamrustolivemustarddeep tealsoft black
- Suits shirt family
- Light shirts
Names the styles you don't have words for.
Whatever your reference (a t-shirt, a print, an album sleeve), Merchu reads the visual DNA and tells you what to call it, so you don't need to know the term.
Free to start, no card required.
Merchu is for DTF t-shirts and sweatshirts on Etsy and eBay. It's not a mug printer, not a poster shop, not a vector logo tool. If you sell DTF garments, you'll feel at home. If you don't, we'd rather tell you up front.
The bits people usually want to check
Is Merchu print on demand?
Yes, for the UK. You design your own t-shirt in the t-shirt maker (from a brief, the trend feed or your own artwork), Merchu makes the print-ready files, lists the design on Etsy or eBay, and when it sells we print the DTF transfer in Sheffield and post it. There is no stock to buy and nothing to ship yourself.
Do I own the designs I generate?
Yes. Every design you create on Merchu is yours to sell, license or modify, with full commercial rights on Etsy, eBay, Shopify and anywhere else you sell. We don't take a cut of your listings.
What about AI / trademark risk?
Merchu's generation pipeline avoids known trademarks, brand marks and copyrighted characters by default. You're still responsible for your own brief (if you ask for a specific brand, that's on you), and marketplaces run their own IP checks on what you list.
Where does the trend data come from?
Merchu tracks real search demand (the same volume data advertisers use) for over 70,000 t-shirt subjects across the UK and US, and cross-checks trends against sales signals from Etsy's bestseller lists. Rankings rebuild automatically every week, and every trend is vetted before it ships: duplicates merged, one-off fads culled and trademark risks gated out.
How is the print quality?
Our CMYK TIFFs are colour-accurate for DTF. They're the same files our own printer (1ClickPrint) runs every day. You can order transfers from inside Merchu or download the files and use any DTF printer of your choice.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, in one click from Billing & Usage in your account. You keep your plan until the end of the period you've paid for, then move to the Free plan. No long contracts, no winding-up fees, and designs you've already generated are yours to keep.